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Maybe an integer overflow somewhere? Either that or the NES is just too bored at this point and cries uncle.
by Ecco 5y ago
Maybe an integer overflow somewhere? Either that or the NES is just too bored at this point and cries uncle.
- beebeepka 5y ago"cries uncle"? I am not a big fan of idioms but this one is bad. What does it mean? Edit: keep piling on me, guys. That'll teach me to like obscure idioms
- kordlessagain 5y agoIt’s where your bigger cousin is giving you a noogie and you want his dad to help.
- moron4hire 5y agoI always understood the usage of "to cry uncle", but never understood the origin until you described it this way. I guess, being the oldest cousin in my family, and not being the kind of person to beat up my younger cousins, it never came up.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI don't think that's the actual origin, Wikipedia says it likely comes from a 19th century joke about a parrot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Uncle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Uncle
- Y_Y 5y agofrom the Iowa Citizen of 9 October 1891: > A gentleman was boasting that his parrot would repeat anything he told him. For example, he told him several times, before some friends, to say “Uncle,” but the parrot would not repeat it. In anger he seized the bird, and half-twisting his neck, said: “Say ‘uncle,’ you beggar!” and threw him into the fowl pen, in which he had ten prize fowls. Shortly afterward, thinking he had killed the parrot, he went to the pen. To his surprise he found nine of the fowls dead on the floor with their necks wrung, and the parrot standing on the tenth twisting his neck and screaming: “Say ‘uncle,’ you beggar! say uncle.’”
- variaga 5y agohttps://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cry+uncle https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cry+uncle
- biddit 5y agoTo admit defeat
- jcims 5y agoIt's intentionally obscure, it's basically a safeword for young kids that enjoy torturing each other in one way or another. You're getting piled on for being weirdly critical about something you clearly don't understand.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoYou know its an idiom, and refuse to just Google it?
- throwaway675309 5y agoIt's not a particularly obscure idiom (lots of pop culture tv shows make reference to it), and calling it "bad" makes zero sense.